For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"SOLICITOR." Any person, who goes from house to house, or from place to place, in the city, selling or taking orders for, or offering to sell or take orders for, goods, wares, or merchandise, or any article for future delivery. However, this chapter shall apply only to solicitors who demand, accept, or receive payment or a deposit of money in advance of final delivery.
"TRANSIENT MERCHANT." Any person engaging in a retail or wholesale sale of goods, wares, or merchandise in the city, or any and all persons, both principals and agents, who conduct or engage in this city, either in one locality or in traveling from place to place, for the purpose of selling goods, wares, and merchandise for a period of 120 days or less, and who for the purpose of carrying on such business shall have, use, or occupy any building, vehicle, railway car, booth, store, shop, vacant lot or parking lot, tent, room in a hotel, rooming or boarding house, structure, or other place for the exhibition or sale of such merchandise.
('80 Code, § 18-16)